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Magic Window:

The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!

DURING recording:No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!Note: Chapter 2 had to be split into two parts, so all subsequent chapters are off by 1 - chapter 3 is section 4. so please start off with the section number, so that sections all start with the right number. thank you!Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording:START of recording (Intro)

"Section [number, as in the mw] of Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"

I've changed a couple of things in the first post. We'll stay here to see if we can get a DPL.
I've just added the titles for the first two sections os you can see how it is done, I'll leave you to do the rest

Duhh re: half-second silence at beginning - I got my decimal point in the wrong place and inserted 5 seconds of silence

What was your view on my inserting an "in" to make sense of the sentence? - even though it wasn't in the text (am sure we'll encounter the same issue further on)

I'll upload chapter one tomorrow - I've deliberately been tinkering with my recording process and have recorded it in separate "chunks" and also re-recorded fluffed lines and copied-and-pasted (as well as "punch-and-roll" (is that the correct term?)) . . . I'll process all as one piece - let me know if you notice the joints, please

update on apparent lack of progress . . . I'm collecting a truckload of (donated) sound-proofing / sound-absorbing panels this weekend and will be re-constructing my closet (oops - studio ) . . . I'll re-voice the first 2.5 chapters that I have in the can but are only partially edited so that all will sound the same hereafter

I should have more than sufficient to sound-proof the studio (closet ) and also the door to my office (spare bedroom ) and hopefully some left over to mask the refrigerators and my computer . . . . problem then will be to hide my stomach-rumbling noises!

Plan is to build a barn for the donkeys etc, and to incorporate a studio, complete with a whisper room . . . hope to do it next year